Faculty and Staff
Ann Wehmeyer
Associate Professor of Japanese
Ph.D., University of Michigan
- 320 Pugh Hall
- awehmeye@ufl.edu
- 352.392.8149
- homepage
Office Hours - Spring 2013
- Monday & Friday: 3:00 to 3:50 pm
- Tuesday 11:45 to 12:35 pm
- Or by appointment
Areas of Interest
I am interested in language in all of its varieties, representations, and modes of analysis. Current areas of research are origins of linguistic analysis in Japan, kotodama ‘word spirit’ as cultural construct, and representation of non-standard speech in the media.
Selected Publications
Book:
1997. Kojiki-den, Book 1, by Motoori Norinaga, introduced, translated and annotated by Ann Wehmeyer. Ithaca, New York: East Asia Program, Cornell University.
Articles:
forthcoming. “Chinese and Japanese Traditional Grammar.”
In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ed. by Philipp Strazny.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.
1997. “The Interface of Two Cultural Constructs: Kotodama
and Fuudo.” In Japanese Identity: Cultural Analyses,
ed. by Peter Nosco. Denver: Center for Japan Studies, Teikyo
Loretto Heights University, p. 94-106.
1991. “The Concept of Kotodama in Edo Period Nativism,” Annals, Southeast Conference, Association for Asian Studies,
XIII:71-80.
Courses Taught
- JPN 3730 Language in Japanese Society
- JPN 4850 Structure of Japanese
- JPT 4502 Japanese Folklore
- LIN 7118 History of Linguistics
- LIN xxxx Writing Systems
